After many postpones due to our commitments to work, we finally made it for the long anticipated ice cream session at Tom's Palette on 15 Aug!
The lesson costs $50 per person. Lasted around 2 hours, pretty interesting we would say. The lesson teaches you how to make ice-cream (a cup volume) from home.
In the first hour we learnt to make green tea and horlick flavours ice creams. The next hour was more or less spent on tasting different ice cream flavours, learning the different ice cream types - french ice cream, gelato, sorbet etc, and how flavours make it into the ice cream.
Some interesting take aways, there are a few things which can make a ice cream texture smooth, with any one absent, it has to be made up via other ways -
1. Fat/ buttery
2. Air
3. Sugar
Sorbet itself is very smooth while it taste just 'sweet' it is actually very high in sugar content. Because it is tasted very cold, the extreme sweetness is not felt. Gelato while having milk absent from its content is also very sweet due to high sugar content. So the point here is, as long as your ice cream taste good it is SINFUL!
Another interesting thing to point is that, ice cream extracts flavours from the ingredients via milk. Hence if you would like to create 'fried onion' flavour, you can, by 'extracting' the flavour out of the fried onion by dipping it into the milk for the ice cream making - imagine how sinful it sounds, all the oil!! (Oops..) Still a flavour innovative enough to deserve a try! :)
Summing up, it is still a fresh experience. Worth your $50 bucks we would say! (Oh by the way, we were given 2 ice cream vouchers each at the end of the lesson.. :) )
Shirley and me working hard making our first ice creams!
The number of cups you see there are the number of flavours (half that please.. since its 2 of us) we got to taste.
